Will he? Won’t he? Now, next week, another time or never?
President Donald Trump has created quite the guessing game, centered on the serial on-again, off-again threat to send the National Guard into Chicago to address a purported crime wave.
Never mind that homicides are projected to close out this year somewhere close to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s effort to limit the city’s homicide rate to under 500 deaths. The total is down by about a half from the pandemic-era, post-George Floyd peaks of 2020 and 2021.
For Trump, acts and facts, such as truly deploying the guard in Chicago, seem to matter little or not at all. He seems indifferent to the historic gravity of the notion that an American president would send military troops into a city over strident objection from the city’s mayor and the state’s governor.
